Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 20, 2014

Lots of topics to cover this week, starting with the trouble Microsoft got in over a sponsored post campaign for Internet Explorer. I think Bing and Google should take some sort of action, especially Bing. Bing is testing Catapult, hardware that makes Bing twice as fast. Google’s Matt Cutts said Payday rolled out but I don’t see signs of it. We have screen shots of Google’s new rejection notices for reconsideration requests. We also posted the hour long video of the interview of Google’s Matt Cutts by Danny Sullivan. Google said penalized sites do not get crawled less often. Google does send out manual actions over spammy 302 redirected links. Google does warn about using noscript tag and your content. Google is working on a new hreflang feature, if you want to test it out. Yandex stripped out all the search query data in a weird way. Bing Ads added ad group support to the bid landscape tool. Bing Ads is discontinuing Bing Ads Express. A Google study shows how search ads improved brand awareness. Google is updating their shopping feeds specification. Do you need water pistols to get Google support? Twitter launched animated GIF support! That was this week in search at the Search Engine Roundtable.

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Lots of topics to cover this week, starting with the trouble Microsoft got in over a sponsored post campaign for Internet Explorer. I think Bing and Google should take some sort of action, especially Bing. Bing is testing Catapult...